"empathize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-empathize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: empathizes [present, singular, third-person], empathizing [participle, present], empathized [participle, past], empathized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} empathize (third-person singular simple present empathizes, present participle empathizing, simple past and past participle empathized)
  1. (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person Tags: intransitive Synonyms: empathise [Australian, British, Canadian] Derived forms: empathizer Translations (to feel empathy for another person): 同情 (tóngqíng) (Chinese Mandarin), eläytyä (Finnish), empatisoida (Finnish), tuntea empatiaa (Finnish), compatir (French), s’apitoyer (French), mitfühlen (German), Mitgefühl haben (German), mitempfinden (German), együttérez (Hungarian), megért (Hungarian), empatizál (Hungarian), avere empatia (Italian), simpatizzare (Italian), 同情する (dōjō suru) (alt: どうじょうする) (Japanese), 동정하다 (dongjeonghada) (Korean), współczuć [imperfective] (Polish), сопережива́ть (sopereživátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сочу́вствовать (sočúvstvovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), empatizar (Spanish), sentir empatía (Spanish), співпережива́ти (spivperežyváty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), đồng cảm (Vietnamese), thấu cảm (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "s’apitoyer"
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "avere empatia"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "simpatizzare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうじょうする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōjō suru",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "同情する"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dongjeonghada",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "동정하다"
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "word": "współczuć"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sopereživátʹ",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сопережива́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sočúvstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "empatizar"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "sentir empatía"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spivperežyváty",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "співпережива́ти"
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      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
      "word": "đồng cảm"
    },
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      "sense": "to feel empathy for another person",
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